Even though we didn't visit Stockholm on a budget, I couldn't help but assess the city to see if it was actually possible to visit the city on a backpacker budget
In Sweden, the coffee break, is a national pastime. It's so important that it even has it's very own word: FIKA.
Stockholm is often called the most appealing city in Scandinavia, and it's easy to see why.
Was this the capital of Finland or a portal into Dante's 9th Circle of Icy Hell? Surveying the frozen landscape, covered in snow, and the grey, godless sky, I couldn't be entirely sure.
It wasn't my idea of an ideal first night in a new country, but sometimes circumstances beyond your control, force you into situations you never expected to be in